playing DSD or FLAC via CD (burning your own)

[SAM992]

So I like the idea of owning my own music... I also like the idea of having it in some sort of physical form... such as a CD.

I'm also interested in building a DSD library but I'm not a fan of keeping it on a thumb drive or playing it via a NAS drive.. want to be able to put it into my CD player and send it via the SPDIF to the dCS DAC..

Do we know if it's possible (and what equipment do you need? just a Macintosh laptop and Apple cd/dvd burning drive?).. to burn DSD music onto a CD disk and play it back that way? I understand that SACD is propriety but DSD isn't the same thing, right?

[Kal Rubinson]

1. DSD is the content format of SACD.
2. CDs cannot accommodate the amount of data used for higher resolutions, like DSD.
3. There are ways to make a so-called SACD-R but you also have to have one of the few players that will play them. Apple stuff won't.

[crwilli]

Interesting question. Copy DSD files to a CD and then try and play them back.

First, DSD files are huge as compared to the WAV files of a typical CD. So your CD-ROM disc would hold only a few.

Second, I don’t know if any Media Player would read them.

While there may be someway to accomplish what you want, I think it would be much simpler and provide the best SQ to simply download DSD music and stream from a storage device. (Too many options to go into there)

Alternatively, buy an SACD player and then spin your own SACD discs.